Principles And Ethos

The principles underlying the project are to:

• Recognise the power and value of the family.
  
  
• Ensure that the initiative is community led and indigenous to the culture of the area.
  
  
• Embrace a community development strategy in all aspects of the programmes.
  
  
• Reflects good childcare practice in all aspects of the programmes.
  
  
• Established an equality of relationships with parents, respecting and supporting them as partners in education and opportunities provision.
  
  
• Provide opportunities for parents to engage in a learning process, which will be innovative, flexible, people centered, quality driven and measurable.
  
  
• Operate on a partnership basis within the local community, with state organisations and transnationally.
  
  
• Make transparent and accountable the structures and processes of management, finance and decision making.
  
  
• Recognise the need for adequate child care provision as a basic requirement for all programmes associated with Urban.
  
  
• Seek to manage programmes effectively within budget.
  
  
• Encourage community sourcing of service, staffing and materials where appropriate.
  
  
• The project will endeavour to apply good employment practices.

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